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BACKGROUND
Since 2009, a warning has been issued about cocaine that has been adulterated with levamisole, mainly in the USA and Canada. Agranulocytosis occurs as an idiosyncratic reaction in 3-10% of patients exposed to levamisole.
METHODS
A 36-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of an
We describe an outbreak of deaths from cocaine-induced excited delirium (EDDs) in Dade County, Florida between 1979 and 1990. From a registry of all cocaine-related deaths in Dade County, Florida, from 1969-1990, 58 EDDs were compared with 125 victims of accidental cocaine overdose without excited